Track

July 30, 1987|By Larry Greene

RECORD TOSS. Petra Felke set a women's world record in the javelin with a throw 258 feet, 10 inches at a meet in Leipzig, East Germany. The mark eclipsed the world record of 254-1 held by Britain's Fatima Whitbread, which was set in Stuttgart, West Germany, on Aug. 28, 1986.